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GE-Proton 8-14 released, deprecated workarounds removed ...  GamingOnLinux

The state of optimus-manager explained by its developer  GamingOnLinux

AMD To Enhance “OverDrive” GPU Overclocking Features For Linux Users  Wccftech

Sriram Ramkrishna at Intel, who serves as the community manager and developer relations for oneAPI, held a virtual oneAPI meetup this week with Red Hat's David Airlie. Airlie should not need any introduction for longtime Phoronix readers given his longtime contributions to the Linux kernel graphics drivers, Mesa, and related open-source graphics work at Red Hat. Airlie shared some interesting remarks around the current Linux GPU compute stacks from the different vendors and associated challenges...

David Airlie Shares His Thoughts On Current Challenges With Linux ...  Phoronix

The world seems so loopy. But at least someone's written a memory-safe sudo in Rust  The Register

The perf event changes were submitted this week for the ongoing Linux 6.6 kernel merge window with changes this cycle for Intel, AMD, and Arm...

Linux 6.6 Perf Events Prepare For Intel's Crestmont In Grand Ridge ...  Phoronix

There wasn't any big Vulkan spec update for SIGGRAPH this year but the frequent point releases continue rolling on for this high performance graphics and compute API...

The tmpfs file-system that keeps all of its data within virtual memory has gained a few new features with Linux 6.6, including the long-awaited quota support to better protect against malicious users that could try to consume all of your system RAM...

While leading up to a US holiday weekend, KDE developers haven't let up in their development activities around Plasma 6.0 and associated application work. KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development summary to outline all of the interesting changes for the week...

You Can Now Install Linux Kernel 6.5 on Ubuntu, Here’s How  9to5Linux

ArcaOS 5.1.0 (OEM OS/2 Warp Operating System) Now Available  Slashdot

Linux-based Set Top Box Market 2023 Global Insights and Business Scenario -Sagemcom, Skyworth, Huawei, Co  Benzinga

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In July the Steam Survey results pointed to a half percent jump in the Linux gaming marketshare, taking it to nearly 2% thanks to the success of Valve's Steam Deck that runs their Arch Linux powered SteamOS platform. After the big boost in July you are probably wondering what happened in August... Well, a few minutes ago the new Steam Survey monthly results were published...

Steam Survey Results For August Show A Linux Dip After A Very ...  Phoronix

For those with extra time over the US Labor Day holiday weekend, Linux From Scratch 12 has been published for those wishing to hand-roll their own Linux system build from source. Linux From Scratch 12.0 is accompanied by the Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) 12.0 release too, including the systemd variant, for further extending LFS installations with more packages...

Linux From Scratch 12.0 Published For Rolling Your Own Linux Build  Phoronix

Following the recent Wine summer holiday, Wine 8.15 is out today and back on track with the usual two-week release regiment...